The Maximus Formula Thread - Help/OCing/Guide/Rampage conversion

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HHmmmm....I should install 06 on my rig. I haven't even run it since I got my 4870X2.

Bah! I'm getting that openal32.dll error in Vista x64.......I thought I just had to reinstall openal, but it's not working. I'll post results as soon as I get the bench working.

Ok I have it figured out. I'm currently running 06. It seems that it's more stressful on the GPU than vantage, as I have hard locked twice in FireFly Forest at 852 MHz and 842......now I'm backing down to 837. I was stable at least at 852 in Vantage......maybe even higher
Yep it just looks like good old fashioned instability in FireFly Forest. It's a bit strange considering that I'm stable much higher in Vantage, but no worries.

My 4870X2 runs so cool with this block.....it's just begging for voltage. I really don't have the steady hands to volt mod (or the balls TBH), so I guess it's BIOS mod or nothing (which most likely means nothing.)

I need to clock this CPU higher.....score isn't very good compared to others.

Yah you need to turn that bad boy up a notch, If I actually used lod tweaks in 06 I might have yah with a single 512mb

[binormalkilla]

Yah you need to turn that bad boy up a notch, If I actually used lod tweaks in 06 I might have yah with a single 512mb

WTF........that's insane. Have you tweaked anything, like turned down IQ in CCC? Are you running the default res? I ran mine at 4 GHz and got this


BTW that's on Vista x64 so maybe that's hurting the score a little. IIRC there is a performance hit in 3dmark06 in Vista.

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WTF........that's insane. Have you tweaked anything, like turned down IQ in CCC? Are you running the default res? I ran mine at 4 GHz and got this


BTW that's on Vista x64 so maybe that's hurting the score a little. IIRC there is a performance hit in 3dmark06 in Vista.

nah thats at default high performance settings. I don't lose much between vista/xp I ran out of slider bar for ram I need a bios that allows more

Vista 64 + 4870x2 is your issue. I've seen this before, you will score alot higher in vista 32 and XP.

believe it or not if i set mitmap detail to high performance my score actually gets worse.

I got an ati tool version working and the Lod bias settings dont work, cant find where to set it in rivatuner and ati tray tools i'm lost.

[binormalkilla]

nah thats at default high performance settings. I don't lose much between vista/xp I ran out of slider bar for ram I need a bios that allows more

Vista 64 + 4870x2 is your issue. I've seen this before, you will score alot higher in vista 32 and XP.

believe it or not if i set mitmap detail to high performance my score actually gets worse.

I got an ati tool version working and the Lod bias settings dont work, cant find where to set it in rivatuner and ati tray tools i'm lost.

Yea I don't benchmark much for competition, as I just want to make sure my system is running as it should be. I would like to take some time and chill my water loop, then overvolt like crazy......but sadly I don't have as much time since I started school again.

BTW ATI Tool doesn't play well with the 4870X2....I would look around the driver level tweaks in Rivatuner.

8.12 seems not to like my card much, hard locks running Vantage and 3DMark05 when 8.11 did not at same settings....
3D06 is down a few hundred points compared to 8.11 run.
Guess its time to tear the loop apart and run the new card on ....air (ick)
Well maybe one more run on 8.11 to confirm my suspicions

I haven't had any issues with 8.12 in Vista x64 one bit. There is an annoying water artifact bug in Call of DUty World at War, where the border of puddles looks like it has frozen. This sort of flickers on and off at times. Not extremely noticeable, but still annoying.
I found a pic:
http://ninjamonkeys.co.za/wp-content...1/shot0000.jpg